Glastonbury, the town not the gig

[Ariel Badger]

Went there yesterday, funny place full of shops selling stuff that has no appeal to a rationalist like myself such as crystals and dream-catchers. I saw at least three git wizards and lots of witch type ladies that I had to cross the road to avoid but most remarkable was a stunning Chinese girl wearing only heals fishnet stockings and a shirt. A funny sort of place and not one I am keen on, does anyone else have experiences of the town?
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Great campsite amongst apple trees.
Rifleman Arms did great takeouts.
Gog & Magog - Ancient Oak trees.
Indoor bowling alley in some pubs.
Had to admit that the wood and metalwork pieces in some shops were impressive although not my thing.
Manager of Town Hall booked my friend to play on the spot when he heard him busking.
Hippy babes.

On the other hand you've got crap buskers and crap/hippy-tat everywhere, most of it overpriced most of it smelly.

Harmless town that I always felt safe in.
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[Ariel Badger]

I always find new-agers quite threatening as they are so self righteous and easy to take offence. We had been at Westernzoyland sprint-racing about 12 miles away. My mates may need a wash and swear a bit but at least they feel honest to me.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Nah, new-agers have so many holes in their ethos it's rich pickings for an old punk like you.
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[owl10]

It's not my thing, but it is different, and I'm glad such places exist if only because it's not another generic ' copytown'
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[Ariel Badger]

[andyscooter]

there has been a load of hippy/steam punk/rockers/hipters in my village all weekend

stupid smelly pisstaking plebs

one walked into my local with a can of john smiths and promptly got kicked out
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[Teflon-Mike]

I found myself in the place about twenty years ago.. don't sound like much has changed then!

Would have been August '97. I'd just picked up the VF1000 & had it probably two days! 'd booked a couple of days off work to go 'play' before tackling the Stratford Rd Showdown into Hall-Green in the morning on it. So, I packed my camera, and headed out of town, with no particular place to go, and only the idea I aught find some-where I had't been before....

Somewhere past Evesham.. I saw a sign, and thought "Glastonbury? Heard of that. Don't think I bin there before...." so that's the way I headed!

It was like riding back into my childhood in the mid 70's, a seven-year old with (imma) mature-student parents & a lumber-jack jacket.... "Look it'll keep you warm, they're all the trend!!!" wondering where to put my BTR patches, being dragged round 'Digs' where teeny-boppers who missed the party of the 60's were 'spaysinowt' with balding middle-aged pot-pushers who had 'sort' of been there.. may-be.. with old single beds with an oriental 'throw' over them, in their front rooms instead of a sofa, and a Moroccan Bong where the telly should be, listening to Jefferson Aeroplane, and pontificating obscure Procal Harem lyrics, criticising early Floyd, and the merit of mung beans!

Glastonbury was like they had ALL spent the last twenty years, practising tie die, candle making and machcramie in evening class, when the grant cheques ran out, and suddenly ALL decided to have a yard sale together, so they could buy a Barrat Rabbit hutch and re-join the main-stream!!!!!

All felt horribly 'wrong', it wasn't so much pretend or sold-out, or some perverted idea of what it all might have been about, so much as? Well.... Chipping Campden tea-rooms and water-colour galleries, given a make-over, for what the proprietors thought the passing trade were interested in... that they could get from the Indian Cash & Carry in Erdinton! Sort of a 'posh' Skegness without the crappy beach!

I think I spent about twenty minutes looking round the ruins of the Abbey... curious to have a pile of rubble as the centre piece of the place.. even for some-one who has spent most of their adult life in and around Coventry... and even spent four years opposite their pile of rubble studying engineering in its shadow! Then I went up the Tor....

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The Bedford Ice-Cram van in the middle of an otherwise empty landscape, pretty much summed up the whole experience for me I think!
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[G]

Going to be extra full with all the people turning up early for the festival.

(Campervans can get into the festival today, so plenty will turn up yesterday or before.)

[DrSnoosnoo]

Last year, or was it the year before?, me and the (then to-be) wife visited. Fkn weird. Shops selling shit covered in snake oil. Pretty place but super strange.
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[Polarbear]

King Arthur would be turning in his grave to see what goes on there now.
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[panrider_uk]

Nice place as long as you don't mind all the hippy crap.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

The tor is a good place to look at the rest of Somerset when it's turned into an inland sea.
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[M.C]

Can't say I understood what the big deal was about Glastonbury. The Tor was alright, the abbey stupidly expensive (like all tourist places are) so I snuck in, but the rest of the town was a bit meh. If there was anything special about the place its long since gone...

[Sload]

Was in the area during festival time and that had a mini anti glast fest in the center, it wasn't very good but I did learn they are not fond of the festival. Sell out was the common opinion I gleaned.
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[Ste]

[Sload]

Quite a few oldies.
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[Ste]

With a population of less than one thousand, there aren't many oldies in Pilton to be complaining about anything.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Prices of houses in pilton are at a premium (despite the occasional oddball who erects a fuck-off great cross in their back garden) on account of the free tickets to residents.

I've had 'residents tickets' that have been sold to people officially with houses within 10 miles of Pilton after the usual tickets are long since sold out in previous years.
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[Ste]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/we-hope-to-move-glastonbury-to-longleat-by-2019-says-michael-eav/